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Technology Stocks : METRICOM - Wireless Data Communications
MCOM 0.0160+14.3%Dec 17 1:01 PM EST
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To: Rex Takasugi who wrote (766)5/21/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: HVN  Read Replies (1) of 3376
 
With regards to your comments on flat rate pricing - actually, it's already here. Bell Atlantic Mobile launched an "all-you-can-eat" package on their CDPD network for about $55/month. The catch is that the modem is expensive at $700 or something like that and CDPD rates a not tremendously fast. But coverage is MUCH wider than what MCOM offers and will be in a position to offer for years.

Then comes what AT&T has - on the CDPD front I hear they are offering, or going to offer, a similar package - but the coverage is supposedly much more awesome - something along the lines of anywhere in the country where there's CDPD coverage. Beats me as to how they can offer this deal - will be mind blowing if they actually do this. Coverage-wise, it will take MCOM well into the next century to catch up. I think it's all in line with the "One Rate" pricing AT&T is offering on their cellular phones - I believe it's service available anywhere in the 50 states there's cellular/wireless coverage, you pay no Long Distance and No Roaming - their best package works out to something like 11 cents a min!!! I'm seriously thinking of dumping my home phone - which I hardly use anyways!
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